{"id":3790,"date":"2025-12-15T11:31:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3790"},"modified":"2025-12-15T11:31:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:31:50","slug":"jac-morgan-wales-captain-to-join-gloucester-from-ospreys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=3790","title":{"rendered":"Jac Morgan: Wales captain to join Gloucester from Ospreys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Wales captain Jac Morgan will join Gloucester at the end of the season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 25-year-old back row was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cd0k7pk9n72o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">due to be out of contract with Ospreys<\/a>, where he has played since 2021, at the end of the current term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morgan, who made his international debut in 2022, has 24 Wales caps along with two for the British and Irish Lions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m delighted to sign for Gloucester Rugby ahead of the 2026-27 season,&#8221; he told Gloucester&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gloucesterrugby.co.uk\/content\/wales-captain-jac-morgan-signs-for-gloucester-rugby\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">website<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a great club with brilliant supporters. I know a lot of players at Gloucester who speak highly of the environment and I&#8217;m excited for the future. I&#8217;m also looking forward to the challenge of playing in the Gallagher Prem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Morgan came through the academy at Scarlets and made his senior debut in 2019, before joining local rivals Ospreys two years later. He made his senior Wales bow in a victory over Scotland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Currently recovering from a shoulder injury, he could miss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cew4rn0qk4yo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">the entire 2026 Six Nations<\/a>. Morgan was the only Welshman to play in the Lions series against Australia this year after Tomos Williams was forced out by injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He leaves at an uncertain time for Welsh rugby, with the number of professional clubs in the country <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cze61rw12rko\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">set to be reduced from four to three<\/a> by 2027.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c8r31jv8jnxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wales captain Jac Morgan will &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[251],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}